| Robert Picciano
As general manager for Lotus and WebSphere Portal Software, Bob Picciano has oversight for an extensive portfolio of collaboration tools designed to empower people to be more effective, responsive and innovative within the context of the work they do. It includes email, calendar, instant messaging, electronic forms, web conferencing, portals, mashups, team spaces, business dashboards, document management, social software and software as a service. He also serves as a member of IBM’s Performance Team and the IBM Integration and Values team, two select communities of executives who provide guidance across IBM on various operational, business, and strategic issues. Bob has spent 19 of his 21 year IBM career in the Research and Development positions leading innovations into many product domain areas. Immediately prior to becoming general manager, Mr. Picciano was vice president, worldwide sales, Information Management, Software Group. He was responsible for sales and operations for the Information Management portfolio, a multi-billion dollar product set that is sold in over130 countries. Bob had previously been vice president for Data Servers, responsible for business line performance of IBM’s highly successful database portfolio of software products including DB2, Informix IDS, Cloudscape, RedBrick, and XPS. From 2001 to2004, Mr. Picciano led the worldwide development and support of DB2 Linux, Windows and UNIX platforms as vice president of Database Technology while on international assignment at the IBM Toronto Software Development Lab in Markham, Canada. Over the course of his twenty year career at IBM, Mr. Picciano has held numerous technical management and executive positions including Technical Assistant to IBM Chairman and CEO Louis V. Gerstner, Jr. and IMS Family Product Manager, where he also managed the Santa Teresa laboratory central development technologies team, providing development, test and product packaging services to the lab’s development teams. Mr. Picciano holds a B.S. degree in Computer Science from Northeastern University. Larry Bowden
Larry Bowden has over two decades experience in IBM helping customers exploit the opportunities provided by information technologies. He currently is Vice President, Portals and Mashups where he is responsible for the development and delivery of web based products and solutions to help customers create differentiated web experiences for their customers, partners, employees or citizens. Prior to this, he was Vice President Portal Solutions and Lotus Products for IBM's Lotus Software brand and the lead for strategy, marketing, partnerships, industry offerings and services. Under Bowden’s leadership, WebSphere Portal grew to be the highest market share portal solution. Larry also has extensive experience with IBM's Information Management team in Somers, New York, where he was primarily focused on IBM Content Management, Business Intelligence, Document Management, and Relational database initiatives. Larry holds Bachelor of Science in Engineering and Master of Business Administration degrees from the University of Denver.
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